What The Australian did not tell us about the Democrat Convention

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 3 March 2007

First published in The New Australian 9 September 1996

Peter Wilson (Clinton’s man on The Australian) painted the Chicago Democratic Convention in boring political pastels. According to him Clinton had “orchestrated a generational change” (a snide reference to Dole’s age) and given “the US a more moderate but boring Party” He then took his usual side swipe at the “welfare-slashing” Republicans. Compare Wilson's anodyne description of the Democratic Convention with his acidic commentary on the Republican Convention.

The Republicans are, according to Wilson’s ‘progressive’ logic, being transformed “into the US's first major religious party”. In further proof of Republican intolerance he opined that it would never elect anyone who did not defend the rights of unborn children. He supported this view by claiming that Christian conservatives now have the power to stop pro-abortionists from getting the presidential ticket. Of course, the fact that the Democrats would never elect anyone who opposed abortion is, to him, proof of their moral superiority and commitment to ‘diversity’.

Let us cut through Wilson’s nasty insinuations, caricatures and hypocrisy. A close look at the Democrats’ platform and the delegates themselves would reveal that it is they who are extremists and who are in conflict with American values. A Washington Post/ABC survey revealed that 82 per cent of registered voters favour a balanced-budget amendment while only 32 per cent of Democratic delegates supported it. As expected, the Democratic platform gagged all references to the issue, including the fact that 162 Democrats in Congress doomed the balanced-budget amendment by voting against it. (I guess that is what Wilson means by moderation and why he refused to report it).

The survey also revealed that even though 82 per cent of Democratic delegates favour preferences based on race and sex most Americans oppose them. (Obviously most Americans are racist, sexist extremists). The survey showed that as a whole registered voters race and sex preferences by a margin of 52 per cent to 45 per cent. This is a heavy blow to America’s social engineers. Even more telling, however, were the results of a 1995 Los Angeles survey. It showed that a huge majority of 73 per cent favoured outlawing preferential hiring on the basis of sex or race.

Although The Washington Post/ABC post showed about 73 per cent of registered voters supported a five-year limit on welfare-benefits, only 38 per cent of the delegates did. Interesting enough, the Convention made no mention of specific time limits. Maybe that is because he has no intention of implementing the welfare-reform bill. While being interviewed by David Brinkley, Al Gore (an environmental extremist) admitted that Clinton had lied to the public about implementing the bill because the president would use every means to sabotage it.

Wilson likes to portray anyone as an ‘extremist’ who does not support his own extreme view that abortion on demand should be legal. He forever harps on abortion as somehow defining liberals (left-wingers) as tolerant and conservatives as extremists. On this basis he portrays the Republicans as intolerant and at odds with mainstream values. Yet the reverse is true. Rather than being in the mainstream of public opinion on the issue of abortion (and many others), the Democrats are definitely swimming upstream.

Rather than supporting the extreme Democratic platform of abortion on demand at any time and at taxpayers’ expense, most of the public want abortion restricted, with 74 per cent favouring a mandatory 24-hour waiting period and parental consent, 70 per cent supporting spousal notification laws, 73 per cent support prohibition of abortion after the first three months of pregnancy and a whopping 80 per cent oppose government funding of abortion. Not a word on these matters from Wilson.

Quite recently Clinton vetoed a humane bill to ban barbaric partial-birth abortions. This savage practice involves partially delivering a 20 to 26-week fetus feet first, inserting surgical scissors into the skull and then sucking out the brain with a vacuum device. This causes the baby’s skull to collapse. As expected, most Americans (who are still religious and idealistic) opposed this monstrosity with 71 per cent registering opposition. I believe it would have been much higher if this murderous procedure had been more fully understood. Wilson, on the other hand, blamed the Republicans for Clinton not vetoing the bill!

But what else can we expect from a man who wrote America “leads the world in child poverty”. Wilson lied to his readers about the Reagan years and he lied about the economy under Clinton. Wilson, However, is not an exception; he belongs to a thoroughly rotten bunch of bigoted journalists who seem to have nothing but contempt for the truth.